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novel by Philip José Farmer

Dayworld is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Published in , it is the first in the Dayworld tetralogy of novels inspired by Farmer's own short story "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World".

There are two sequels - Dayworld Rebel () and Dayworld Breakup () - and one prequel, Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday, co-authored by Danny Adams ().

Plot summary

The story is set in a dystopian future in which an overpopulated world solves the problem by allocating people only one day per week.

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For the rest of the six days they are "stoned", a kind of suspended animation. The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker, someone who lives more than one day a week. He is not like most daybreakers; he belongs to a government defying group called the “Immers”. The Immers are a very large and powerful group that works to create a better government.

Not all Immers are daybreakers, so to get messages and